Bojan Šarčević (; born 1974) is a Serbian

visual artist The visual arts are art forms such as painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics (art), ceramics, photography, video, image, filmmaking, design, crafts, and architecture. Many artistic disciplines such as performing arts, conceptual a ...

and educator. His work includes

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, installations, site-responsive

architectural Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and construction, constructi ...

interventions, photographic

collage Collage (, from the , "to glue" or "to stick together") is a technique of art creation, primarily used in the visual arts, but in music too, by which art results from an assembly of different forms, thus creating a new whole. (Compare with pasti ...

, more or less abstract

sculpture Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sc ...

, and printed publications.

Biography

Born in 1974, in

Belgrade Belgrade is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Serbia, largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers and at the crossroads of the Pannonian Basin, Pannonian Plain and the Balkan Peninsula. T ...

, Serbia. Šarčević spent part of his childhood in

Morocco Morocco, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It has coastlines on the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to Algeria–Morocc ...

and

Algeria Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered to Algeria–Tunisia border, the northeast by Tunisia; to Algeria–Libya border, the east by Libya; to Alger ...

, but was living in

Sarajevo Sarajevo ( ), ; ''see Names of European cities in different languages (Q–T)#S, names in other languages'' is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, largest city of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with a population of 2 ...

at the outbreak of the

Bosnian war The Bosnian War ( / Рат у Босни и Херцеговини) was an international armed conflict that took place in Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1992 and 1995. Following several earlier violent incid ...

. Šarčević studied at

École des Beaux-Arts ; ) refers to a number of influential art schools in France. The term is associated with the Beaux-Arts architecture, Beaux-Arts style in architecture and city planning that thrived in France and other countries during the late nineteenth centu ...

in Paris, graduating in 1997. He continued his studies at Rijksakademie in Amsterdam.
He has been a professor at

Beaux-Arts de Paris The (), formally the (), is a French ''grande école'' whose primary mission is to provide high-level fine arts education and training. The art school, which is part of the Paris Sciences et Lettres University, is located on two sites: Saint-G ...

since 2016 and a tutor at the postgraduate program deAteliers in Amsterdam since 2008. Šarčević held his first solo exhibition "It seems that an animal is in the world as water in the water", at the gallery BQ in Cologne.

Collections

* 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan * Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany * Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, USA * Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples, Italy * FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France * FRAC Poitou-Charentes, Angoulême, France * Institut d’art contemporain, Villeurbanne, France * Kiasma – Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland * Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein * MUDAM – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg * Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany * MMK – Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany * Sammlung Boros, Berlin, Germany * Sammlung Haubrok, Berlin, Germany * TBA21 – Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria

References

* Martin Herbert
"Unbounded Enthusiasms"
Artforum, November 2010
Jeniffer Allen
"Social Patterns
Frieze, issue 117, 2008
Christy Lange
"Une Heureuse Régression"
Frieze, issue 97, 2006
Kirsty Bell
Bojan Šarčević
Frieze, issue 85, 2004
Jörg Heiser
"Dogs in Space"
Frieze, issue 55, 2000

External links

Official site
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sarcevic, Bojan Serbian contemporary artists 1974 births Living people Artists from Belgrade Date of birth missing (living people) École des Beaux-Arts alumni Alumni of Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten